His Beatitude Mar Raphael Thattil, the Major Archbishop of the Syro-Malabar Church, issued decrees erecting four new ecclesiastical provinces in the Syro-Malabar Church—Faridabad, Ujjain, Kalyan, and Shamshabad—and appointing Mar Kuriakose
Bharanikulangara, Mar Sebastian Vadakel MST, Mar Sebastian Vaniyapurackal, and Mar Prince Antony Panengadan respectively as the Metropolitan Archbishops. These decisions were announced on 28 August at a public meeting held at the Major Archiepiscopal Curia at Mount St. Thomas, Kakkanad, in the presence of the Synod Fathers, and were also made public at 12 noon (Italian time) in the Vatican.
The Eparchies of Bijnor and Gorakhpur will be suffragan eparchies of Faridabad Province. The Eparchies of Sagar, Satna, and Jagdalpur will be suffragan eparchies of Ujjain Province. The Eparchies of Chanda and Rajkot are included in Kalyan Province.The Eparchy of Adilabad will be suffragan eparchy of Shamshabad Province. Additionally, the Eparchy of Hosur in Tamil Nadu will now be the suffragan eparchy of the Archeparchy of Trichur.
